Call me the breeze ....
Rhiann Marie - Round the World
Stewart Graham
Sat 17 Sep 2011 18:23
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Saturday Night! 17th September 1754 UTC 1854
BST
20:29.772S 001:38.484E
Wind: 16 Knots SE, COG 321deg True, SOG 7.0
Knots
Well at last the wind has picked up (still up my
chuff though!) just enough to stop the flogging. And it is due to blow at 15
knots for the next day or two and then picking up to 20 plus knots at the
begining of the week.
I don't mind the slower speeds for now though they
have been desperately slow the past day or so, as long as I get steady winds.
Enough to press the canvas.
However in the next few days I should get some wind
angle too.......
St Helena is now less than 500 miles away so
barring any disasters Tuesday is ETA. You know I have been told there are seven
women for every man in St Helena ....... interesting.
Ther was a bit of a strange occurence again today.
You remember a few days ago (oops! I just checked - it was yesterday .... stir
crazy?) I mentioned that I had got quite a strong radar mark coming and
going off my port side. I also yesterday got a brief snapshot of VHF from them
in English. Who were they talking to I wondered then and wonder
now?
Well today the same strong mark, with no AIS, was
coming and going 12 miles of my port side. Again it was the brief VHF coms
that alerted me first to its presence. However after checking the horizon with
the binoculars I could still not get any visual.
Maybe its a black pudding delivery for
me?
In the hope that it was I called twice by VHF and
was greeted by complete silence on both occasions. What I really think is that it is perhaps a military ship or surfaced
submarine as the mark is big but comes and goes.
As it is Saturday night I feel like a bit of a
party so (20 knots wind and 8.6 knots boat speed now) I've got Lynyrd Skynyrd
blasting out and the song of the day is................. Yes! you guessed - Call Me The Breeze! Like some sort of rain dance
I've had it blasting out and sure enough the breeze is filling in.
The big question however is was the original JJ
Cale version better than the Skynyrd version? In my view they are both great but
the Lynyrd Skynyrd version flys a bit more and that's just what I need.
The e-mails are now coming in from far and wide and
the east Coast of Autralia at 7,500 miles away has just been pipped by Portland
in Oregon at 7,700 miles away! Any more takers?
Quote of the day, by WC Fields: If at first you
don't succeed then try, try again. Then quit. There's no point being a damn fool
about it!
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